phy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faɪ/
Noun
phy (uncountable)
- (slang) The drug physeptone.
- 1996, Fortnight, numbers 346-356, page 23:
- "The phy is doing me in", she says […]
- 2015, Julie O'Toole, Heroin: A story of drug addiction, hope and triumph:
- Phy is much harder to come off than heroin.
See also
- phy ed (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams
Chinese
Etymology
From clipping of English physics.
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: fi1
- Yale: fī
- Cantonese Pinyin: fi1
- Guangdong Romanization: fi1
- Sinological IPA (key): /fiː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
phy
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) physics
See also
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpʰyː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfiː]
Interjection
phȳ
- pish!
References
- “phy”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “phy”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- phy in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.